Cars in Hagley Park
Sir,—An unspecified number of car-parking spaces must be added to the 900 already in Hagley Park (plus 500 at the saleyards car park) to “tidy the present indiscriminate parking, improve safety for users, and improve the environment” (“The Press,” October 22). If parking is untidy and indiscriminate at present, then present car-parks are obviously too big, not too small. Safety in present car-parks cannot be improved simply by creating more. And what strange minds think car-parks improve the environment? The real reason is probably to assist supposedly-fit weekend sportsmen who cannot totter more than half a dozen steps from Sr seat to playing field. Or it may be to encourage further the city by single-occupant private cars during the week, an discourage public transport an bicycles. But these encroachments on green spaces must be resisted. We B SSot discourage niotQr-cars by them, as car-parKs
do. We must stop appeasing motorcars now, or this will not be their last demand. — Yours, etc., D. J. ROUND. October 23, 1985.
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Press, 25 October 1985, Page 16
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